What if you lived a hundred different lives, travelled through countless worlds, and then met the one person who made you want to stay?

We’re joined by author Sean W. Willson on Spill the Book to talk about his genre-bending novel, The Hundred Lives I Lived Before You, a love story that throws romance, alternate realities, pirates, planets, kingdoms, and some seriously complicated life choices into the same universe.

Meet Ren, a man who wakes up in different eras and realities without warning. He has no control over where he goes next, until he meets someone who makes him question everything.

We’re getting into the inspiration behind the book, building worlds that refuse to stay still, writing romance across alternate realities, creating emotional twists without spoiling the mystery, and deciding whether love really is worth risking everything for.

And because this is Spill the Book, we’re not letting Sean escape without a little chaos.

We put him through rapid-fire bookish questions, impossible Would You Rather dilemmas, fictional character confessions, and our Build-a-Romance challenge, where the ingredients for a romance novel get progressively more questionable.

Will Sean create a sweeping love story or a literary disaster involving an emotionally unavailable dragon? You'll have to watch to find out.

In this episode:

• The story behind The Hundred Lives I Lived Before You

• Writing romance across alternate realities

• The challenge of creating different worlds, timelines, and characters

• Love, fate, identity, and finding your place in the world

• Sean's writing process and life as an author

• Bookish confessions, fictional character red flags, and rapid-fire questions

• Build-a-Romance: author edition

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Hundred Lives I Lived Before You by Sean W. Willson follows Ren as he navigates different worlds and realities, searching for answers about his condition and discovering what it means to find home, love, and the person worth risking everything for.

FIND SEAN W. WILLSON

Website: https://www.seanwillson.com/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67981103.Sean_W_Willson

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